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Dolly Sen

@dollysen.bsky.social

British Writer, speaker, artist, filmmaker, working class, queer, interested in disability & the madness that is given to us by the world. She/They

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 3w ago

St Clements used to be a psychiatric hospital. I created this commemorative plinth and placed it in the cemetery off the site where some patients were buried, their graves unmarked. People were touched enough by it to leave flowers, stones, leaves and sticks to show their love too.

A grey rectangular plinth with the text: to the 1000s of psychiatric patients who lived and died her, unmarked and unloved, their ghosts stand here. LEAVE LOVE HERE. Surrounding the plinth are autumnal leaves, on top of the plinth are flowers, a feather, sticks and twigs, and stones.
Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

who remembers the long gone patients in the old psychiatric hospital? On September 5th at 14:00, there will be a walk around St. Clement’s, with former staff, oral histories with former patients and a performance and art by me to commemorate those lives. www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/remem...

Remembering St. Clement's Hospital - Whitechapel Gallery

A walk celebrating, commiserating and commemorating the 20th anniversary of the closure of St. Clement's psychiatric hospital.

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Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain information about its years of safeguarding failings. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdog-dis...

Watchdog dismisses DWP’s description of DNS editor as ‘vengeful’ and ‘vexatious’ for asking to see deaths email

The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain informatio…

disabilitynewsservice.com

Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 11mo ago

On Nov 3rd, myself, Joy Dove and other activist declared the DWP HQ building in London a crime scene. I also dressed up as the devil to ‘congratulate’ the workers coming in and out for their cruel and evil work. Just simply protesting that life is not a cost to cut.

Dolly Sen, with short dark hair and a black cape is pasting some hazard taoe saying: 'Crime Scene - Do Not Enter' onto the DWP sign outside the HQ of the DWP Dolly, a brown skinned woman with short dark hair is wearing some black devil horns. Her tattooed arms are up in the air, and she is wearing a red to and trousers. Her expression is intentful
Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · last yr.

was interviewed by @johnpring.bsky.social for Disability News Serivce about my response to the far right gathering last weekend, and my disappointment that racist disabled people don't see they will be victims of fascism too www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peo...

Disabled people of colour speak of terror and safety fears after mass far-right protest

Disabled people of colour say last weekend’s “horrific” far-right protest in London has left them feeling terrified and unsafe. Saturday’s protest was supposedly aimed at “free speech” but most of …

disabilitynewsservice.com

voice of the psychiatrized@nycicarusorg.myatproto.social · last yr.

redherringpress.bigcartel.com/product/lori... Got this lovely @dollysen.bsky.social book about Lorina Bulwer, workhouse captive, after her life turned. She sewed sheets & scraps of cloth into a narrative of her life in text & images. Dolly provides her own narrative about Lorina's life & madness.

Lorina Bulwer | by Dolly Sen

Lorina Bulwer is Dolly Sen's polemical exploration of madness, material, and the life of Lorina Bulwer: a needleworker incarcerated in the...

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · last yr.

Go see work inspired by the legacy of Lorina Bulwer, the infamous needleworker who embroidered her rage onto samplers. We invite you to meet the rage of women's voices through an updated re-creation of Lorina's famous tapestry reflecting the voices of women in 2025 at Primeyarc in Great Yarmouth!

Dolly Sen, a brown person with dark hair and tattoo, wearing black jeans and a blue and rainbow coloured tshirt stands in front of 6 long multicoloured embroidered samplers on a white wall